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Reviewed on September 15, 2003
Compiled by Marable (director, Inst. for Research in African American Studies, Columbia Univ.), this anthology presents a well-documented perspective of the African American experience from Colonial times to the present. It is intended as "a narrative of struggle and sacrifice, not from the top down but from the bottom up" and also as an attempt "to illustrate and document the innumerable connections between culture and resistance." These goals are clarified by the division of the text into the three sections: "Gender, Kinship, and Community," "Pol...Log In or Sign Up to Read More